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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork

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